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Books like Nicky & Vera

Across Holocaust, Prejudice & Racism, Social Topics, and Europe — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís.

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Top related books to Nicky & Vera

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Nicky & Vera.

The Boy who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers — Jeremy Dronfield

The Boy who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers

Jeremy Dronfield

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — John Boyne

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity — Robin Stevens

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Hitler Youth Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Hitler Youth Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

The Woman Who Split the Atom The Life of Lise Meitner — Marissa Moss

The Woman Who Split the Atom The Life of Lise Meitner

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

The King of Children A Biography of Janusz Korczak — Betty Jean Lifton

The King of Children A Biography of Janusz Korczak

Betty Jean Lifton

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Anne Frank’s Story — Carol Ann Lee

Anne Frank’s Story

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Children of the Wild West — Russell Freedman

Children of the Wild West

Russell Freedman

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Just a Girl A True Story of World War II — Lia Levi

Just a Girl A True Story of World War II

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

I Am a Star Child of the Holocaust — Inge Auerbacher

I Am a Star Child of the Holocaust

Inge Auerbacher

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

After — Morris Gleitzman

Morris Gleitzman

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Remember My Story A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship that Made History — Claire Sarnowski

Remember My Story A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship that Made History

Claire Sarnowski

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

What Was the Holocaust? — Gail Herman

What Was the Holocaust?

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm — David A. Adler

The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Parallel Journeys — Eleanor H. Ayer

Parallel Journeys

Eleanor H. Ayer

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Middle School Sleuths How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees — Fern Schumer Chapman

Middle School Sleuths How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees

Fern Schumer Chapman

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Survivors of the Holocaust — Zane Whittingham

Survivors of the Holocaust

Zane Whittingham

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science — Marc Aronson

Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Two Suns in the Sky — Miriam Bat-Ami

Two Suns in the Sky

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Caged Eagles — Eric Walters

Themes: Holocaust • Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics

Captain of Innocence France and the Dreyfus Affair — Norman H. Finkelstein

Captain of Innocence France and the Dreyfus Affair

Norman H. Finkelstein

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Europe

Black and British A Short Essential History — David Olusoga

Black and British A Short Essential History

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Europe

Zlata’s Diary A Child’s Life in Sarajevo — Zlata Filipovic

Zlata’s Diary A Child’s Life in Sarajevo — Zlata Filipovic

Zlata Filipović

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • Europe

We Will Not be Silent The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler — Russell Freedman

We Will Not be Silent The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler

Russell Freedman

Themes: Holocaust • Social Topics • Europe

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís. Connected by Holocaust, Prejudice & Racism, Social Topics. Authors featured include Jeremy Dronfield, John Boyne, Robin Stevens, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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